To increase the international content of courses at ACCD, "Bringing the World Home and Home to the World," encourages faculty and staff to consider the history of San Antonio and South Texas through the present from a transnational perspective. The South Texas region, with its Hispanic influence, offers a fascinating and unique case study for exploring the international roots and future of the United States. Since pre-Columbian times, the region has been an intersection of various cultures, religions, and traditions that have produced their own cultural synthesis. San Antonio has also served as major entrepot along the trade routes linking Central Mexico to the North American Southwest regions from the time of El Camino Real to its current position as a major hub on the NAFTA highway. A magnet for migrants seeking new opportunities and homes, San Antonio's location is intimately linked with its history. Much of this historic, economic, political, social, cultural and geographic legacy is visible in the ruins of Spanish missions, urban architecture, art, commercial and employment trends, and in the area's demographic and political patterns.
Projects Developed
Gerald McCarthy, Professor of English, San Antonio College
San Antonio's Global Connections
The city of San Antonio, now the 8th largest in the United States, is also one of the most historic and culturally diverse cities in North America. By understanding the significance of San Antonio’s geographical location, its topographical characteristics, and its cultural diversity, we can better understand the influences that drive today’s economy and tomorrow’s possibilities. Unfortunately the resources about San Antonio are as diverse as the city itself.
This site is an attempt to put the long history of San Antonio into perspective and provide a few starting places for research.
Other Resourses:
The following links are examples of Interdisciplinary Online Resources created at other institutions. They offer inspiration and good models for to ponder. They are by no means exhaustive. Please email further suggestions to the web site moderator.
The following links direct you to resources both on and off line that can be utilized when creating your own curriculum relating to San Antonio's transnational past, present, and future.. They are by no means exhaustive. Please email further suggestions to the moderator.
This site is maintained by Jonathan Lee
at San Antonio College
